Hit a cat - what to do?

helpimcrap · 1 Aug 2011 at 16:48

report it to a neighbour or something as they might recognise it - avoid what i did when the car in front ran over a cats head and i went to ask for a box as it was still thrashing on the floor and i would see if i could take it vets...

i knocked on the house of someone to ask for a box and she told me to bring it back.... then when she found out it was her cat she was a mess...

crinkleshoes · 1 Aug 2011 at 16:56

Dr Who said:
I have also lost a child and can say the loss of a child is greater but does invoke the same emotions. Some people don't have children and experience a similar loss with the loss of a pet.

Thank you for clarifying that... sorry for your loss

cheets64 · 1 Aug 2011 at 18:58

Nothing

Imy · 2 Aug 2011 at 08:55

So driving back from work last night I get to the same road where the incident occurred. About 100m further up along it there's this black and white cat that looks the same as the one I hit taking a stroll on the pavement on the other side of the road to me.

I park up and watch it for a while. It seems to be moving along just fine. It takes a look at me; as if recognising the car, legs it into the fields!

Hoping it's the same cat.

Skii · 2 Aug 2011 at 09:25

Imy said:
So driving back from work last night I get to the same road where the incident occurred. About 100m further up along it there's this black and white cat that looks the same as the one I hit taking a stroll on the pavement on the other side of the road to me.

I park up and watch it for a while. It seems to be moving along just fine. It takes a look at me; as if recognising the car, legs it into the fields!

Hoping it's the same cat.

Sounds like it, fair play to you for being concerned anyway

lordrobs · 2 Aug 2011 at 10:02

OP, can you drive around near my house for a bit and see if you can clip the one that keep crapping on my front lawn? Or the one that keeps running all over my car assuming it isn't the same one?

EDIT- sorry, just saw your last reply. I need some one who can do a proper job on them.

Imy · 2 Aug 2011 at 11:14

I'd imagine it would be quite difficult to run one over on purpose!

matt_fsr · 2 Aug 2011 at 11:26

lordrobs said:
OP, can you drive around near my house for a bit and see if you can clip the one that keep crapping on my front lawn? Or the one that keeps running all over my car assuming it isn't the same one?

EDIT- sorry, just saw your last reply. I need some one who can do a proper job on them.

I'll pop around your house and run over your car in my steel cat-pawprint soled boots if you want.

ferae naturae.

robj20 · 2 Aug 2011 at 12:38

I would be more concerned with the damage to my car than trying to find some cat. If the owners dont want them getting hurt dont let them out of the house, my neighbur keeps his two in the house.

Kutter · 2 Aug 2011 at 13:18

I ran over 2 squirrals last week. Its the racoons that are always roadkill over here. They must have no road sense at all.

Dr Who · 2 Aug 2011 at 15:23

robj20 said:
I would be more concerned with the damage to my car than trying to find some cat. If the owners dont want them getting hurt dont let them out of the house, my neighbur keeps his two in the house.

Yeah you are right, we let ours out because we want them hurt :rolleyes:

stulid · 2 Aug 2011 at 15:25

People who dont let cats out are being cruel in my opinion.

Dr Who · 2 Aug 2011 at 15:44

stulid said:
People who dont let cats out are being cruel in my opinion.

This

robj20 · 2 Aug 2011 at 15:55

Then dont moan if they end up road kill is all im saying.
They get whats coming to them if they set foot in my garden.

Imy · 2 Aug 2011 at 16:03

You drive around in your garden?

robj20 · 2 Aug 2011 at 16:35

Well, yes to get the car out but i meant finding piles of cat crap in the flower beds.

lordrobs · 2 Aug 2011 at 16:50

matt_fsr said:
I'll pop around your house and run over your car in my steel cat-pawprint soled boots if you want.

ferae naturae.

No thats ok thanks. The cats are doing a fine job of ruining my property as it is.

Oh and "ferae naturae" indeed... which is why they make a rubbish domestic pet in my opinion. Unfortunately millions of people disagree.

robj20 said:
Well, yes to get the car out but i meant finding piles of cat crap in the flower beds.

Yeah I get that one too. What annoys me is that if I had a dog that **** in everyones garden, walked all over their cars scratching them up and chewing on the radio aerial in the process and danced out in front of traffic then I'd be held accountable for it but it is fine for little feline ******'*.

Any way, I'm ranting

mehuk · 2 Aug 2011 at 16:56

Its funny how in this thread running over and harming cats is fun, part and parcel of becoming a man... yet in the other forum, hitting a pig thats about to get ripped apart by a machine to become a pack of Danepak is the worst thing in the world.

Dr Who · 2 Aug 2011 at 19:09

lordrobs said:
No thats ok thanks. The cats are doing a fine job of ruining my property as it is.

Any way, I'm ranting

Well if they weren't around you could look forward to being overun with mice/rats and other vermin.

A few tiny turds buried in your garden are nothing like the worm ridden child blinding uber logs a dog leaves on the pavement outside your house and in the local parks.

You would love Cyprus, they throw down poison meat in the streets there.

If you don't want cats on your car, keep it inside a garage

[TW]Fox · 2 Aug 2011 at 19:10

mehuk said:
Its funny how in this thread running over and harming cats is fun

Is it?

Where has ANYONE said that?